Abstract:
this is a gender study on the artistic production of ceramic in some communities of jequitinhonha valley, minas gerais, brazil. traditionally only women, who were called 'potters', produced this kind of craft in that region and it used to be taught from mothers to daughters. as ceramic artifacts became an alternative source of income, men decided to produce them. the entrance of men in the craft caused some re-elaboration of gender relations in those communities, and allowed us to detect gender not as a set of fixed corporifications, but as something under constant construction. a very important point here is that, although transmitted by women and a result of feminine activity, the production of ceramic incorporated male values. when men gained access to a traditionally defined feminine activity, they were able to draw from the craft symbolic resources for the representation of masculinity.

Abstract:
in addition to an initial socket discomfort, ocular prosthesis (op) installation may allow the adherence of fungi and/or bacteria due to the superficial characteristics of the prosthesis' material, use of inadequate cleansing solutions and methods, or because the void located between the internal portion of the prosthesis and the anophthalmic cavity (ac) mucosa. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate op biofilm formation and the level of contamination of the internal portion of the op and the ac in 24 patients. material and methods: material was collected from the ac at the beginning of the study and 15 days after cleansing of the op with 3 cleansing solutions: a neutral liquid soap, a multiuse solution for contact lens (complete) and 0.12% chlorhexidine (periogard). the collected materials were sowed in petri dishes containing selective media for aerobic and facultative microorganisms, specifically staphylococci (hipersalt agar with egg yolk), aerobic microorganisms (brain heart infusion blood agar), streptococci (mitis salivarius agar), gram-negative bacilli (macconkey agar) and yeasts (chromagar candidatm), incubated at 35oc or 37oc and the number of colony forming units were counted. data were analyzed statistically by anova, friedman's test and spearman's correlation. results: aerobic microorganisms, gram-negative bacilli and s. aureus were found in the op biofilm and in the ac. there was statistically significant difference (p<0.05) between the number of microorganisms before and after the use of the cleansing solutions. conclusion: there was positive correlation with respect to the microorganisms present in the op biofilm and ac for the 4 proposed treatments, indicating that the decrease of op contamination leads to ac contamination as well.

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Aspects of phenology and reproductive biology of Heliconia spathocircinata Aristeg. in border and interior areas of an Atlantic Rain Forest fragment in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, are apresented. Four plots of 10x10m were delineated, two on the edge and two inside the forest, and individuals of H. spathocircinata were monitored from June 2009 to June 2010. The observations were carried out from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. once a week on December and January, and fortnightly the rest of flowering. Heliconia spathocircinata bloomeds between November and March and the fruits were ripe two months after pollination, and there was no significant difference between edge and interior with regard to the period of flowering and fruiting. The fruit-flower ratio averaged 66.6% in the interior and 27% within the forestedge, a considerable difference. The male hummingbirds Thalurania glaucopis Gmelin, and to a lesser extent, female birds of this species, were the most frequent pollinators in the area evaluated, both edge and interior. Other species were identified as pollinators: Phaethornis ruber L., Ramphodon naevius Dumont, Eupetomena macroura Gmelin, and Amazilia fimbriata Gmelin. Of these, only P. ruber was found in both environments.

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reality: a reasoning that cannot be explained, but believed. the author demonstrates, using freud？s and lacan？s theory, the existence of a relation between the subject and the objects, that constitute his reality, an emptiness of references that determines that psychic reality is consisted of a loss. for the psychoanalysis the access to the truth, or reality, is related to subject？s division and discourse in which he is embraced. reality is an order, or reason, of logical stability, to which the subject is assented, he believes, without explanation. the reality depends on arbitrary election of significant as in ma？tre-mot (master word) to constitute one？s self, and the principle of discursive ordering, that can only exist if the subject does not question.